Biathle News
National Biathle Training Swim posted by Howard Jones on27-07-2010
Please note that there will be an opportunity to swim the National Biathle course at Salford as a training session between 12 noon and 1:00om on Saturday 7th August.
Meet Mick Flaherty outside the Watersports Centre at 11:45.
World Masters Modern Pentathlon/Tetrathlon Championships posted by Peter Hart on27-07-2010
The entry forms for the above competition which is being held in Gyor, Hungary over the period 16-18 Spetember has been received by Headquarters.
The age groups for the championships are:
Women have born in 1 January 1981 or earlier,
Men have born in 1 January 1981 or earlier.
If you are interested in entering please contact the office.Please note that this is not a funded competitiion.
Biathle Training in the North West posted by Howard Jones on13-07-2010
Biathle Training sessions have been arranged in the Nort West as follows:
Saturday 17th July - Blackpool Wakepark PR4 3NB 7.30AM meet for 1hour 30minutes session. Cold water based. £4 per athlete
Saturday 24th July - Fleetwood Pool FY7 6HF 7.20AM meet for 1hour 30minutes session. Pool based.£tbc
Saturday 31st July - Fleetwood Pool FY7 6HF 7.20AM meet for 1hour 30minutes session. Pool based.£tbc
Also the following session at the site of the British championships.
Thursday 22nd July- Salford Quays, Watersports Centre 5.45PM meet for 1hour brick session. Cold water based. £4 Under 16's £5 adults
For further information contact Nicola on njrowley@hotmail.co.uk or Tel 07940 587964
Appointment of Development Officer in South East posted by Peter Hart on09-07-2010
Pentathlon GB are delighted to announce the appointment of Carolyn French as the new Development Officer for the South East Region, based at Medway Park, Gillingham.
Medway Park has been identified as the venue for the South East regional training centre in partnership with Medway Council.
The role will involve the set up of regular regional training sessions for the athletes and developing participation and membership with schools in the South East.
Previously as one of the South East competition secretaries for the she has vast experience in the organisation of pentathlon and Pony Club events. Carolyn's daughter, Kate, is a member of Pentathlon GB"s Development squad.
Carolyn can be contacted at carolyn.french@pentathlongb.org or Tel: 07834 320316
Dubai Information for Biathle World Championships posted by Howard Jones on03-07-2010
Accommodation:
A limited amount of accommodation has been reserved in three 5 star hotels/apartments at special considerably reduced rates for our team. In
1. 5
2. 5 star Moevenpick Hotel on the famous Jumerah beach. 50 Rooms have been held in this newly opened hotel with Gym and swimming pool. 15 – 20 minutes walk from competition site and on Jumeirah beach which is the current “in place” in Dubai.. Room charges per night include all taxes and charges and breakfast Single £170, Double/Twin £180, Double/Twin with extra bed £210.
3. 5 Star Meridian Mina Seyahi hotel is situated actually on the competition site and sponsors the event. This outstanding, exceptionally well equipped, hotel has its own private beach and laned swimming pool. Including breakfast and all taxes and charges, the rates per night per room are: Single room £275, double/twin room £300, double/twin with extra bed for up to 12 year old £375. You can book this hotel directat special rates via: http://www.starwoodmeeting.
Transport
Petrol £1 a gallon – therefore taxis are very cheap. There are both four seat saloons and larger people carriers. Taxis leaving the Airport subject to 20 Dirham surcharge otherwise they are very cheap and plentiful and, if there are 2 or more persons taxis are cheaper that the overhead metro railway.
Local tips
Water expensive – tap water de-salinated from sea water. Use bottled water. As well as some excellent fine food restaurants, there are plenty of KFC, Burger King, McDonalds and Subways in the shopping malls. Supermarkets such as Waitrose plentiful but discreetly hidden from view as in Monaco.
Rules and Dress Code
Shorts, bare arms only on beach, swimming pools hotels etc. Public showing of affection e.g. kissing not tolerated. Dubai has strict rules on relationships and drugs. No alcohol and zero tolerance on drink driving, although some hotels do have bars. Automatic 4 year jail sentence for drugs possession including codeine which is in many cold cures! Best not to take medicines and buy what you need at their excellent pharmacies. Care when walking as traffic which drives on the “wrong” side of the road has the right and does do U turns at traffic light junctions
Things to see
World Tallest Building - the Burj Khalifa at 800 metres high, World Biggest shopping Mall, Worlds tallest Luxury hotel - the Burj Al Arab, World biggest fountain, Worlds biggest Acrylic glass fronted aquarium. Atlantis hotel on the Palm Jumeirah, its aquarium and water park and much more.
Bavarian Success for GB Biathletes posted by Howard Jones on17-06-2010
Medals Galore for GB Team in Germany
The 5th round of the 2010 Biathle World Tour took place in Heidenheim, a most beautiful part of southern Germany on June 12th. Athletes from Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Germany, Great Britain, South Africa and Switzerland had entered. The event was staged around the large open air public pool in the nearby village of Kösingen.
The GB team’s first success came courtesy of Hugh Ireland in the Youths D race with an emphatic win in a time of 4mins 38.4 seconds. That as followed by another fine win for Jordan Symington in the Youths C Race in a time of 5 minutes 16.74 In the Youths B event, Dervla Ireland finished second in a time of 11 minutes 48.43.
The GB Team were dominant in the masters races with wins for Nick Ireland (M40), Margaret Smith (M50), Mary Collett (M60) and Peter Collett (M70). Mike Todd finishing in 8th place in the Masters 40 race.
Jon Fletcher had another emphatic win in the Senior Race winning in a time of 12 minutes 33.27 and Natalie Thomas was another winner in the Ladies event in 15 minutes 15.74. Kay Shafford was placed second in the Junior event in a time of 16 minutes 17.62.
A remarkable performance for a team of 11 British athletes – eight wins, two second places and an eighth.
This was a very good experience for this inaugural German World Tour which also managed to organise a Test Biathle Team Relay right after the Biathle World Tour races. The UIPM are keen to set a standard for Biathle relay events and have asked the Federations to run test events to assess formats.
This German format was that only 1 Senior or Junior athlete could combine with 2 athletes of any 2 form different classes running 500, swimming 100 and running another 500 each. If a male athlete was part of a mixed team, they counted as a male team. Youth D and E were only allowed to participate in a separate Mini Team to running 500m swimming 50m and running 500m each.
All competing athletes were given a certificate recording their performances at an excellent closing party. The standards of the pasta party, competition and closing party were all a credit to the organising team led by Angela Tetz in this the first Biathle World Tour to be organised in Germany - well done to everyone.
Howard Jones
GB Biathle Tea,m manager
British Biathlon Championships Timetable and Map posted by Skip on16-06-2010
The timetable and map for the British Biathlon Championships (July 4th, Wavertree Sports Park, Liverpool) are now available here: Timetable and Map
GB Biathle Series Race 1 Millfield School 27th March posted by Howard Jones on22-03-2010
Please note that because of the large number of youths D boys entered for this event, the Youths D race will consist of two heats and a final.
The heats will be the first races of the day at 14:00 and the final will be the last race of the day.
Programme of events
10:00 Athletes meet on the Swimming Pool Balcony
10:30 Biathle Calendar. Rules. Competition Techniques and Preparation
11:30 Transition training on the athletic track using competition boxes - removing and replacing shoes at speed with the use of elasticated laces. How to prepare for the afternoon Race.
12:30 Registration for GB Series Race 1 on the Swimming Pool balcony.
13:30 Course briefing for all athletes
14:00 Biathle competition starting with Class D Boys Heats
16:15 approx - Prizegiving on the Pool Balcony
GB women's quartet book places in final of Cairo World Cup posted by Steve Ballinger on18-03-2010
Great Britain will have four women pentathletes in the final of the second World Cup of the year in Cairo on Saturday (20 March).
Katy Burke, Mhairi Spence, Katy Livingston and Freyja Prentice all qualified safely from today's semi-finals.
"It was mission accomplished as far as our performance target for the semi-finals was concerned today,” said Jan Bartu, Pentathlon GB Performance Director.
“It was a very good day for the British girls with all four qualifying for the finals, as expected,” he added.
Burke and Spence competed in the same heat, with Burke scoring 896 points in the fencing discipline and following that up with a swim of 2:16.2. Spence scored 826 points in the fence and swam 2:21.2.
In the other heat, teenager Prentice, competing at only her third World Cup, recorded a personal best time in the swim of 2:22.4, despite swimming in an open air pool in strong winds. She followed that up with 784 points from the fence.
Beijing 2008 Olympian Livingston, who won the World Cup in Cairo two years ago, swam 2:18.4 and fenced 896.
All four safely negotiated the combined run/shoot to book places in Saturday"s final.
The attention now turns to tomorrow’s (Friday) men’s semi-finals, where Beijing 2008 Olympian Nick Woodbridge is joined by GB team-mates David Atkinson, Steven Mason and Russell North in bidding for places in Sunday’s final.
For further information, please contact Steve Ballinger in the Pentathlon GB press office at Matchtight Ltd on 07765 071683 or visit the website www.pentathlongb.org
Pentathlon GB Notes for Editors
- Modern Pentathlon is one of Britain’s most successful Olympic sports. The sport for women was introduced to the Olympics at Sydney 2000 and since then Britain’s women have won four Olympic medals - or 66 per cent of the medals available to them. Steph Cook won gold and Kate Allenby bronze at Sydney 2000, with Georgina Harland winning bronze at Athens in 2004 and Heather Fell winning Olympic silver at the Beijing 2008 Games.
- Great Britain had the maximum complement of four pentathletes – Heather Fell, Katy Livingston, Sam Weale and Nick Woodbridge – competing at the Beijing Olympic Games. It was one of only 10 nations to have the full complement of four pentathletes in Beijing. Four British women achieved the qualifying standard for Beijing, but only two could compete, while Weale and Woodbridge became the first men to represent Great Britain in the modern pentathlon at an Olympic Games since Atlanta 96.
- The sport of modern pentathlon has traditionally consisted of five disciplines - shooting, fencing, swimming, riding and running. However, at the end of 2008 the international federation, the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM), decided to replace two of the individual elements – the shooting and running – with a combined run/shoot.
- The new combined event format sees athletes first compete in fencing – when they take-on each other athlete in the field to one hit with each bout taking a maximum of one minute; a 200m freestyle swim; show jumping – when athletes get to meet their horses just 20 minutes before going into the riding arena; then the combined run/shoot – where athletes run 60m, shoot at five targets in up to 70 seconds, run 1k, shoot at another five targets in 70 seconds, run 1k, shoot at a further five targets in 70 seconds and then finish off with a final 1k run. All of the disciplines take place in one day.
- Each performance during the day is converted into pentathlon points and the winner is the athlete to amass the most points at the end of the day. The start of the run/shoot is staggered so the athlete leading the field after the earlier disciplines starts first. This means the first athlete to cross the finish line is the winner.
- Pentathlon GB at Olympic and youth level is a beneficiary of the Lottery funded World Class Programmes (WCP). The Programmes focus on performance sport with the aim of achieving sporting excellence on the world stage. Further information can be found on the UK Sport website at www.uksport.gov.uk and Sport England’s website at www.sportengland.org <http://www.sportengland.org/>
- Pentathlon GB also receives support from M&S as part of the FTSE-BOA Initiative.
- Further information can be found on the Pentathlon GB website at www.pentathlongb.org
Biathle World Tour Germany posted by Howard Jones on11-03-2010
Entry details are now available for the Biathle World Tour at Heidenheim Brenz in Germany on the calendar of events.
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